US-Venezuela oil deal and other top photos from Latin America and the Caribbean

By The Associated Press
September 4, 2026 | 4:58 AM

U.S. Energy Secretary met with Venezuela’s acting president during a visit focused on expanding U.S. access to the country’s vast oil reserves. Meanwhile, Buenos Aires hosted the Tango World Dance Championship.

Jerry Sandusky’s lawyers want to put off accuser’s recantation hearing in a bid for a new trial

By The Associated Press
September 4, 2026 | 6:01 AM

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Lawyers for former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky asked Thursday to cancel a court date for a hearing over a claim that an accuser wants to recant allegations that Sandusky sexually abused him years ago. The hearing was scheduled for Sept. 8 in the latest bid by Sandusky's lawyers to secure a new trial for him. The judge in the case scheduled a status conference Friday to discuss it with defense lawyers, who suggested in a court filing that they want first to appeal the judge's refusal to hear other claims besides the accuser's recantation. Sandusky, 82, has been serving a decades-long prison sentence since he was convicted of 45 counts of sexual abuse in 2012, after eight young men testified about what happened to them as boys. He has repeatedly lost efforts to get a new trial. The Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General has said that the supposed recantation is “highly suspect.”

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